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Organize for film edit
Hey there,
I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good website or document on some helpful methods of organizing an FCP edit file for work on a longer film. I helped shoot and am now beginning to edit a short film that will probably end up being about 35 – 40 minutes in length. So lots of footage, lots of different scenes, etc etc.
Before I begin my log and capture, I’m just looking for some hints or tips on a helpful way to stay organized within my edit file.
-Tucker
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https://store.creativecow.net/p/63/getting_organized_in_final_cut_pro
A tutorial I made…includes organizational workflows or many things, including film. 30-40 min film is a short film, so organization shouldn’t be too hard. Heck, organizing for feature length isn’t hard either.
Shane
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Sometimes I orginize by day and sometimes by subject. It depends on whether I am editing a story that was shot in sequence of if I have to create something from several different sources and times to make a certain segement. It I do a travel video I organize my bins by date so I keep everything in order but if I need to make a story about nature I may organize by subject ie, birds, animals, scenery etc.
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With feature films, you usually organize by scene.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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Shane’s Cow DVD is really a nice one.
I’m a bit of a organizational and logistical workflow aficionado myself, and even though I do a few things a little differently than Shane, I give him credit for coming up with some cool new ideas in his DVD that I had never thought of before, and I’ve adopted several of them.
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When you say film do you actually mean celluloid? If so then be very careful about frame rates and how you go about the telecine. I have seen many posts here about film to SD tape and the horrors of dealing with shifts in frame rate from the 24 original to 29.97 and then cadence removal to get back to 23.976.
I have always wondered why people don’t telecine straight to a true 24 frame file in HD, but it seems to save a few bucks, people put themselves through a horror workflow and end up asking hundreds of questions here about why the audio won’t sync, field order is causing interlace issues etc etc.
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Sorry I should’ve been a little more specific.
It’s shot on video at 24fps. Technically not a film some would say, but it’s just the vernacular I use.
Thanks for all the tips everyone! I’m looking forward to diving in!
-Tucker
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